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bioscope

noun
SayBY-oh-skohpUS/ˈbaɪoʊˌskoʊp/UK/ˈbaɪəʊˌskəʊp/

Pluralbioscopes

2 meanings of bioscope

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  1. 1
    nouncountable
    An early kind of machine that showed moving pictures on a screen.

    The bioscope threw short, shaky films onto a white sheet.

    The museum keeps two old bioscopes in a glass case.

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  2. 2
    noundatedBruneiIndiaIndonesiaMalaysiaMyanmarPakistanSingaporeSouth Africacountable
    A place where people go to watch movies on a big screen.

    We went to the bioscope every Saturday afternoon.

    Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]
    1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black ArtHere, Bioscope means a movie theater where people go to watch films.

    Similarcinema, theater

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Origin

It is made from bio- and -scope. In South Africa its use today is shaped by the Afrikaans word bioskoop.